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The College News
Z-815
VOL. XXVIII, No. 8
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941 Br/n M�"r College, mi PRICE 10 CENTS
. . ___________Copyright, Truateei of
Cowles Calls For
II. S. Aid As Vital
To German Defeat
Russian Resistance Weak,
Will Fail by Spring,
She Declares
Goodhart, November 18. � For
England, peace with Germany is
impossible, said Virginia Cowles.
Rut if Britain wins the war, it
must be with the full aid of the
United States. Russia is disor-
ganized; there is no basis for op-
ti.nism there.
Two and a half years ago, Rus-
sia's army was inefficient. Now,
;ilthough it is bigger than the Ger-
r.iani', it is being forced back.
Probably by late spring, Miss
Cowles said, Russia will be out of
the war. The United States can
have no false sense of security.
The psychological and material re-
sult of an immediate declaration of
war is necessary.
The Royal Air Force, which
from August first to September 15,
1940, shot down over two thousand
Continued on Page Three
Calendar ,
Thursday, November 20
Thanksgiving Vacation.
Friday, November 21
Freshman Hall Tea,
Rhoad Showcase, 4:30.
Freshman Plays: The Man
in tlie Botvler Hat, The
Inca of Perusalem, Happy
Journey. Theatre Work-
shop, 8:30.
Saturday, November 22
French Club Benefit,
Wyndham, 7:30.
Monday, November 24
Arthur Menken, Battle of
Pacific, movie. Goodhart,
8:30.
Tuesday, November 25
Mass Meeting, T)ie Alli-
ance, Goodhart, 7:30.
Forum Will Feature
Debate on U. S. Press
and War Censorship
The Forum will hold a discussion |
on The U. S. Press in Wartime on j
November 27, in Qthe Common j
Room. The speakers plan to con-|
sider voluntary censorship, govern- [
merit department press bureaus
and the Office of Facts and Fig-
ures. They will attempt to deter-
mine what form of censorship
would be preferable at present.
A study will be made of wartime i
censorship in Great Britain, and'
of the opinions of editors, the press
and the public. The industrial or-i
ganization of the American press
is also a subject of research. I
The Forum hopes to hold this
discussion in debate form, since it
believes that this will probably i
lead to a more satisfactory exposi-,
tion. Organized by Ellen Stone,
'42, are approximately twelve peo-
ple working on the program, and,
although they will not all speak,
the large number is of great use
in making for more rapid and ef-
ficient research.
MISS COWLES
Said "I went to Spain to see why
people went to war," "I had been
taught that war was never neces-
sary. I didn't even know the differ-
ence between democracy and Fas-
cism. I went to Europe and found
out."
She said: Women correspondents
have a future. They take more
trouble over tracking down stories,
they write the comprehensive arti-
cles that men, intent upon straight
news reports, do not attempt. "Beg,
borrow, or steal the money. Tell a
newspaper you will write a series
of articles, get to Portugal or
Fiance, and write."
$4400 Fund Allotted
To Varied Activities
The $4400 fund raised by the Ac-
tivities Drive will be distributed
among the various campus activi-
ties in the following manner. The
Hudson Shore Labor School and
The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
will each receive $1200. $500 has
been allotted to The Refugee Schol-
arship Fund while The Bryn Mawr
League and Players Club will ben-
efit by $200 and $300 respectively.
The board of hall representatives
has not met as yet to apportion
the $1000 fund reserved for For-
eign and Domestic Relief.
Swarthmore Ties Owls in Heartbreaking Came;
Second Team Triumphs With Brilliant Victory
By Jacquie Ballard, '43
Bryn Mawr, November 18. � A
disappointing game in which
Swarthmore was outplayed by the
Bryn Mawr Varsity ended in a 2-2
tie.
It looked like a victory for Bryn
Mawr at the end of the first per-
iod when the team held a lead of
2-0. Lydia Gifford had made both
goals in a period in which she
showed her brilliance. Her second
goal was breathtaking. Foiling all
opposition, she made it by dribbling
the ball all the way from the
twenty-five yard line.
Otherwise the first period was
slow. In the beginning of the sec-
ond period, however, the Owls ap-
peared revitalized. Swarthmore
had also improved acquiring such
speed that its opponents were con-
tinually kept on their toes.
The Bryn Mawr defense swiftly
freed the ball, while fullbacks were
especially notable in defense of the
goal. Nevertheless, Swarthmore
twice broke through with a goal
one made by the right inner and
another by the left inner, thereby
crushing Bryn Mawr's possible
chance for a shutout.
At the same time on the adjacent
field the Reserves of both teams
were playing a game which ended
with a 3-1 score in Bryn Mawr's
favor. Ty Walker literally won the
game with her three goals, and
Chellie Chester shone with her clear
passes and excellent stickwork.
VARSITY
\jxxo ..........R. w........ Johnson
Matthat ........R. I......... JS?l,ea.u
r.ifford .........C. F......... p�e;,A"
MurnaKhan .....1*1........... Kelley
^�rlhner .......I* W.......... Moyer
IVikina ........R- H........ Broomell
Waples ........C. H.......... Kuhn
"aekett ........L- H......... Ramsey
Mevander ......I* F......... Pike. J.
� foil ........O....... Shoemaker
RBSERVBS
foleman .......R; W...... Uffhtwood
Rambo .........R i......... ^"ff,1"
Walker .........C. F...........�sTl,h
Rnpland ........L-. I.......... OeddeB
Cheater ........1* W......... Podaon
Wilkinson .....R. H......... Frorer
Tuokerman -----C. H........ Laporte
U H........... Fuohs
Smith
Burch
Fulton
Denny
.R. F........ SpanRler
. L. F.......... Taylor
,..Q............. Doak
Officers Elected to
Executive Board of
B. M. Defense Group
Need of Defense Blood Bank
At B. M. Hospital Stressed
By Dr. Leary
The Defense Group of the fac-
ulty and staff met for elections on
Tuesday evening, November 11.
The following new officers were
elected:
Chairman, Mrs. dc Laguna; Sec-
retary, Mrs. Nahm; Treasurer,
Mr. Doyle. x
Other members of the Executive
Committee: Mr. McClure, Miss
Northrop, and Mr. Soper.
According to the organization of
the Defense Group, the Executive
Committee may add to itself the
chairmen of important sub-com-
mittees. Additions to the list of
officers will therefore be made soon.
An important announcement was
made at this meeting concerning
the need of blood donors for a ci-
vilian defense blood bank at the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Leary
explained the method of plasma
blood banking, in which Dr. Stru-
mia at the Hospital is an expert.
A civilian defense bank would take
Continued on Pane Three
Conference at Vassar Weighs
Our Responsibility to Draftee
Dr, Fieser Lectures
On Roots of Cancer
At Memorial Lecture
Dalton, November 15.�Since Dr.
Louis Fieser synthesized his first
cancer - producing hydrocarbon in
Dalton Hall, it was fitting that he
.should return there, as the first of
the Tennent Memorial lecturers, to
give an account of his subsequent
progress in the chemical field of,
cancer research.
Cancer may be defined as an un-
controlled growth of cells. What-
ever the mechanism is, which, un-
der normal conditions, determines
the limits of tissue growth, it is
lacking or rendered impotent in the
cells of cancer. Is there any indi-
cation in chemical studies of a
cause which might set c^lls off on
their uncontrolled career? This is
the question which Dr. Fieser's
experiments have tried to answer.
Carcinogenic Hydrocarbons
Skin cancer, as an apparently
occupational disease among coal-
tar workers, has prompted the in-
vestigation of the possible carcino-
genic (cancer-producing) proper-
ties of certain hydrocarbons. In
1926, while teaching at Bryn Mawr.
Continued on Page Four
Mr. Chew to Speak
At Exhibition Opening
Mr. Chew, head of the English
department at Bryn Mawr, has
been invited to deliver an address
on "The Web of English Culture"
at the Pierpont Morgan Library in
New York on November 25. The
occasion is the preview of the exhi-
bition, "The British Tradition,"
which is to be held there from No-
vember 26 to March 30. This ex-
hibition presents a literary history
of Great Britain in a comprehen-
sive collection of rare manuscripts
dating from the eighth century up
to Kipling's own draft of Captains
Courageous.
Mr. Chew has just published a
volume of Representative Poems of
Tennyson, edited with introduc-
tion and notes, in the "Odyssey
Series of Literature," in which his
volume of Byron appeared several
years ago.
How to Lose a War Titles
Hypothetical Textbook
Of French Fall
Vassar College, November 15.�
Hoiv to Lose A War, the textbook
written by the fall of France, was
described by Hans Habe, Hunga-
rian author of best-seller, A Thou-
sand Shall Fall. "This valuable
book of defeat was edited by Laval
and published by Petain."
Chapter I in How to Lose a War
is entitled, "We want a Pacifist
Army." Chapter II is called "Rich
and poor alike are not allowed to
steal bread and sleep under
bridges." The French doctrine of
"equality" tried to perpetuate the
status quo, forbade promotions and
killed all ambition.
Chapter III, "The Army must
not think, only obey," discusses
French refusal to give its army an
objective to fight for.
Continued on Page Three
Milne, Shaw, Wilder
To be Presented bv
1945 Friday Night
Pembroke East and West and
Rhoads South will give their
Freshmen Plays in the Cornelia
Otis Skinner Workshop Friday
evening at 8:.'i0. A. A. Milne's
The Man In The Bowler I In I is be-
ing directed by Ann Denny, as-
sisted by Jeanne Marie Lee, in
Pembroke West. Diana Lucas is
Stage Manager and Louise Walker
is in charge of Properties.
Carla Adelt is directing Pem-
broke East's play, The liicu of
I'iriisiilrin by George Bernard
Shaw. Kitty Rand is assistant di-
rector, and Helen Eichelberger is
stage manager.
Thornton Wilder's Happy Jour-
Continued on Page Four
Facilities Offered Army
Benefit Communities
And Soldiers
VoMOir College, November 16.�
"The Nation's Responsibility to the
Draftee" was the subject of a con-
ference held at Vassar on Novem-
ber 15 and 16. Twenty colleges
were represented.
Mark McCloskey of the Federal
Securities Agency and Hans Habe
were the key speakers. Morale
and its problems were discussed in
round tables, lectures and commis-
sions.
Attending the conference from
Bryn Mawr were Catherine Clem-
ent, '43, and Barbara Cooley, '42.
Mark McCloskey calls ours "the
washing-est army that ever was."
Mr. McCloskey, Recreation Direc-
tor of the Federal Securities
Agency, described how he is giving
draftees on leave not o�4y a place
to wash, but to shop, write letters
and play.
He first accomplished the tre-
mendous job of convincing Con-
gress that "Americans can't work
well unless they can play, too." By
the time funds for recreational fa-
cilities were included in the bill
which provides for water, sewage,
schools and hospitals in defense
crowded areas, the recreation
commission was ready with plans.
Their aim was to improve the or-
ganization and capacity of small
communities near draft camps or
in large production areas.
Town committees were organized
to provide information, rooms for
Continued on 1'iiKe Three
Smoking
The Self- Government As-
sociation wishes to remind
students that they are liable
to suspension if they smoke
in their rooms.
In 1917, 3 Days Before U. S. Entered War,
Students Rejected Preparedness Courses
By Barbara Hull, '44
The "Undergraduate Association
Votes Against Substitution of Pre-
paredness Course" is the heavy
type, full page headline for the
College News of April 4, 1917,
published three days before the
United States declared war against
Germany. The conditions under
which the faculty were willing to
substitute preparedness courses
for academic work were ". . . .
that the undergraduates should -he,
practically unanimous in desiring
it, that they should give up to it
the time now spent in dramatics
.... and extra athletics, that
the courses should be registered
and advised as usual, and that they
should follow the line of work al-
ready taken and be along one sub-
ject only." The substitute courses
offered were " . . . . a course in
farming, one in weights and meas-
ures .....and one in colloquial
languages which would fit a stu-
dent to act as censor. Also ....
motor repairing, banking, dietetics
and home care of the sick, a Red
Cross course, and a course in"
emergency aid."
"Those for the substitution ar-
gued that, although the courses
would necessarily be much con-
densed, they would still fit those
who took them to fill the minor
positions of men called to service.
As these courses would be in con-
nection with a student's major,"
they urged, "they would not seri-
ously damage her academic work,
only give it practical application."
"The negative argumerftjPurged
that only those who are^ leaving
college this year will be able to ap-
ply the training received in these
courses. Furthermore," they said,
"such courses would be only a
temporary digression from the life
work of most of the students and
that a completed college course
would out-weigh such values."
Previous to the voting, President
Thomas called a special chapel to
assure the students of the faculty's
sympathy with whatever decisions
the students made. Miss Thomas'
speech, in part, stated: "I always
think of you, and of all students
properly protected in their aca-
demic work as gold fish swimming
around in a great glass globe, en-
tirely free to move as you wish
within the globe, but protected by
the globe from outside activities
that will kill you, as the outside
air will kill goldfish, if you come in
contact with it."
"The one thing that we want to
create in you is a spirit of freedom
and responsibility. You must think
for yourselves. This is the one su-
preme thing that we women must
learn .... I should lose much
of my profound love for Bryn
Mawr if I did not believe that you,
her students, are learning here to
be free."
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The College News
Z-815
VOL. XXVIII, No. 8
BRYN MAWR and WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1941 Br/n M�"r College, mi PRICE 10 CENTS
. . ___________Copyright, Truateei of
Cowles Calls For
II. S. Aid As Vital
To German Defeat
Russian Resistance Weak,
Will Fail by Spring,
She Declares
Goodhart, November 18. � For
England, peace with Germany is
impossible, said Virginia Cowles.
Rut if Britain wins the war, it
must be with the full aid of the
United States. Russia is disor-
ganized; there is no basis for op-
ti.nism there.
Two and a half years ago, Rus-
sia's army was inefficient. Now,
;ilthough it is bigger than the Ger-
r.iani', it is being forced back.
Probably by late spring, Miss
Cowles said, Russia will be out of
the war. The United States can
have no false sense of security.
The psychological and material re-
sult of an immediate declaration of
war is necessary.
The Royal Air Force, which
from August first to September 15,
1940, shot down over two thousand
Continued on Page Three
Calendar ,
Thursday, November 20
Thanksgiving Vacation.
Friday, November 21
Freshman Hall Tea,
Rhoad Showcase, 4:30.
Freshman Plays: The Man
in tlie Botvler Hat, The
Inca of Perusalem, Happy
Journey. Theatre Work-
shop, 8:30.
Saturday, November 22
French Club Benefit,
Wyndham, 7:30.
Monday, November 24
Arthur Menken, Battle of
Pacific, movie. Goodhart,
8:30.
Tuesday, November 25
Mass Meeting, T)ie Alli-
ance, Goodhart, 7:30.
Forum Will Feature
Debate on U. S. Press
and War Censorship
The Forum will hold a discussion |
on The U. S. Press in Wartime on j
November 27, in Qthe Common j
Room. The speakers plan to con-|
sider voluntary censorship, govern- [
merit department press bureaus
and the Office of Facts and Fig-
ures. They will attempt to deter-
mine what form of censorship
would be preferable at present.
A study will be made of wartime i
censorship in Great Britain, and'
of the opinions of editors, the press
and the public. The industrial or-i
ganization of the American press
is also a subject of research. I
The Forum hopes to hold this
discussion in debate form, since it
believes that this will probably i
lead to a more satisfactory exposi-,
tion. Organized by Ellen Stone,
'42, are approximately twelve peo-
ple working on the program, and,
although they will not all speak,
the large number is of great use
in making for more rapid and ef-
ficient research.
MISS COWLES
Said "I went to Spain to see why
people went to war," "I had been
taught that war was never neces-
sary. I didn't even know the differ-
ence between democracy and Fas-
cism. I went to Europe and found
out."
She said: Women correspondents
have a future. They take more
trouble over tracking down stories,
they write the comprehensive arti-
cles that men, intent upon straight
news reports, do not attempt. "Beg,
borrow, or steal the money. Tell a
newspaper you will write a series
of articles, get to Portugal or
Fiance, and write."
$4400 Fund Allotted
To Varied Activities
The $4400 fund raised by the Ac-
tivities Drive will be distributed
among the various campus activi-
ties in the following manner. The
Hudson Shore Labor School and
The Bryn Mawr Summer Camp
will each receive $1200. $500 has
been allotted to The Refugee Schol-
arship Fund while The Bryn Mawr
League and Players Club will ben-
efit by $200 and $300 respectively.
The board of hall representatives
has not met as yet to apportion
the $1000 fund reserved for For-
eign and Domestic Relief.
Swarthmore Ties Owls in Heartbreaking Came;
Second Team Triumphs With Brilliant Victory
By Jacquie Ballard, '43
Bryn Mawr, November 18. � A
disappointing game in which
Swarthmore was outplayed by the
Bryn Mawr Varsity ended in a 2-2
tie.
It looked like a victory for Bryn
Mawr at the end of the first per-
iod when the team held a lead of
2-0. Lydia Gifford had made both
goals in a period in which she
showed her brilliance. Her second
goal was breathtaking. Foiling all
opposition, she made it by dribbling
the ball all the way from the
twenty-five yard line.
Otherwise the first period was
slow. In the beginning of the sec-
ond period, however, the Owls ap-
peared revitalized. Swarthmore
had also improved acquiring such
speed that its opponents were con-
tinually kept on their toes.
The Bryn Mawr defense swiftly
freed the ball, while fullbacks were
especially notable in defense of the
goal. Nevertheless, Swarthmore
twice broke through with a goal
one made by the right inner and
another by the left inner, thereby
crushing Bryn Mawr's possible
chance for a shutout.
At the same time on the adjacent
field the Reserves of both teams
were playing a game which ended
with a 3-1 score in Bryn Mawr's
favor. Ty Walker literally won the
game with her three goals, and
Chellie Chester shone with her clear
passes and excellent stickwork.
VARSITY
\jxxo ..........R. w........ Johnson
Matthat ........R. I......... JS?l,ea.u
r.ifford .........C. F......... p�e;,A"
MurnaKhan .....1*1........... Kelley
^�rlhner .......I* W.......... Moyer
IVikina ........R- H........ Broomell
Waples ........C. H.......... Kuhn
"aekett ........L- H......... Ramsey
Mevander ......I* F......... Pike. J.
� foil ........O....... Shoemaker
RBSERVBS
foleman .......R; W...... Uffhtwood
Rambo .........R i......... ^"ff,1"
Walker .........C. F...........�sTl,h
Rnpland ........L-. I.......... OeddeB
Cheater ........1* W......... Podaon
Wilkinson .....R. H......... Frorer
Tuokerman -----C. H........ Laporte
U H........... Fuohs
Smith
Burch
Fulton
Denny
.R. F........ SpanRler
. L. F.......... Taylor
,..Q............. Doak
Officers Elected to
Executive Board of
B. M. Defense Group
Need of Defense Blood Bank
At B. M. Hospital Stressed
By Dr. Leary
The Defense Group of the fac-
ulty and staff met for elections on
Tuesday evening, November 11.
The following new officers were
elected:
Chairman, Mrs. dc Laguna; Sec-
retary, Mrs. Nahm; Treasurer,
Mr. Doyle. x
Other members of the Executive
Committee: Mr. McClure, Miss
Northrop, and Mr. Soper.
According to the organization of
the Defense Group, the Executive
Committee may add to itself the
chairmen of important sub-com-
mittees. Additions to the list of
officers will therefore be made soon.
An important announcement was
made at this meeting concerning
the need of blood donors for a ci-
vilian defense blood bank at the
Bryn Mawr Hospital. Dr. Leary
explained the method of plasma
blood banking, in which Dr. Stru-
mia at the Hospital is an expert.
A civilian defense bank would take
Continued on Pane Three
Conference at Vassar Weighs
Our Responsibility to Draftee
Dr, Fieser Lectures
On Roots of Cancer
At Memorial Lecture
Dalton, November 15.�Since Dr.
Louis Fieser synthesized his first
cancer - producing hydrocarbon in
Dalton Hall, it was fitting that he
.should return there, as the first of
the Tennent Memorial lecturers, to
give an account of his subsequent
progress in the chemical field of,
cancer research.
Cancer may be defined as an un-
controlled growth of cells. What-
ever the mechanism is, which, un-
der normal conditions, determines
the limits of tissue growth, it is
lacking or rendered impotent in the
cells of cancer. Is there any indi-
cation in chemical studies of a
cause which might set c^lls off on
their uncontrolled career? This is
the question which Dr. Fieser's
experiments have tried to answer.
Carcinogenic Hydrocarbons
Skin cancer, as an apparently
occupational disease among coal-
tar workers, has prompted the in-
vestigation of the possible carcino-
genic (cancer-producing) proper-
ties of certain hydrocarbons. In
1926, while teaching at Bryn Mawr.
Continued on Page Four
Mr. Chew to Speak
At Exhibition Opening
Mr. Chew, head of the English
department at Bryn Mawr, has
been invited to deliver an address
on "The Web of English Culture"
at the Pierpont Morgan Library in
New York on November 25. The
occasion is the preview of the exhi-
bition, "The British Tradition,"
which is to be held there from No-
vember 26 to March 30. This ex-
hibition presents a literary history
of Great Britain in a comprehen-
sive collection of rare manuscripts
dating from the eighth century up
to Kipling's own draft of Captains
Courageous.
Mr. Chew has just published a
volume of Representative Poems of
Tennyson, edited with introduc-
tion and notes, in the "Odyssey
Series of Literature," in which his
volume of Byron appeared several
years ago.
How to Lose a War Titles
Hypothetical Textbook
Of French Fall
Vassar College, November 15.�
Hoiv to Lose A War, the textbook
written by the fall of France, was
described by Hans Habe, Hunga-
rian author of best-seller, A Thou-
sand Shall Fall. "This valuable
book of defeat was edited by Laval
and published by Petain."
Chapter I in How to Lose a War
is entitled, "We want a Pacifist
Army." Chapter II is called "Rich
and poor alike are not allowed to
steal bread and sleep under
bridges." The French doctrine of
"equality" tried to perpetuate the
status quo, forbade promotions and
killed all ambition.
Chapter III, "The Army must
not think, only obey," discusses
French refusal to give its army an
objective to fight for.
Continued on Page Three
Milne, Shaw, Wilder
To be Presented bv
1945 Friday Night
Pembroke East and West and
Rhoads South will give their
Freshmen Plays in the Cornelia
Otis Skinner Workshop Friday
evening at 8:.'i0. A. A. Milne's
The Man In The Bowler I In I is be-
ing directed by Ann Denny, as-
sisted by Jeanne Marie Lee, in
Pembroke West. Diana Lucas is
Stage Manager and Louise Walker
is in charge of Properties.
Carla Adelt is directing Pem-
broke East's play, The liicu of
I'iriisiilrin by George Bernard
Shaw. Kitty Rand is assistant di-
rector, and Helen Eichelberger is
stage manager.
Thornton Wilder's Happy Jour-
Continued on Page Four
Facilities Offered Army
Benefit Communities
And Soldiers
VoMOir College, November 16.�
"The Nation's Responsibility to the
Draftee" was the subject of a con-
ference held at Vassar on Novem-
ber 15 and 16. Twenty colleges
were represented.
Mark McCloskey of the Federal
Securities Agency and Hans Habe
were the key speakers. Morale
and its problems were discussed in
round tables, lectures and commis-
sions.
Attending the conference from
Bryn Mawr were Catherine Clem-
ent, '43, and Barbara Cooley, '42.
Mark McCloskey calls ours "the
washing-est army that ever was."
Mr. McCloskey, Recreation Direc-
tor of the Federal Securities
Agency, described how he is giving
draftees on leave not o�4y a place
to wash, but to shop, write letters
and play.
He first accomplished the tre-
mendous job of convincing Con-
gress that "Americans can't work
well unless they can play, too." By
the time funds for recreational fa-
cilities were included in the bill
which provides for water, sewage,
schools and hospitals in defense
crowded areas, the recreation
commission was ready with plans.
Their aim was to improve the or-
ganization and capacity of small
communities near draft camps or
in large production areas.
Town committees were organized
to provide information, rooms for
Continued on 1'iiKe Three
Smoking
The Self- Government As-
sociation wishes to remind
students that they are liable
to suspension if they smoke
in their rooms.
In 1917, 3 Days Before U. S. Entered War,
Students Rejected Preparedness Courses
By Barbara Hull, '44
The "Undergraduate Association
Votes Against Substitution of Pre-
paredness Course" is the heavy
type, full page headline for the
College News of April 4, 1917,
published three days before the
United States declared war against
Germany. The conditions under
which the faculty were willing to
substitute preparedness courses
for academic work were ". . . .
that the undergraduates should -he,
practically unanimous in desiring
it, that they should give up to it
the time now spent in dramatics
.... and extra athletics, that
the courses should be registered
and advised as usual, and that they
should follow the line of work al-
ready taken and be along one sub-
ject only." The substitute courses
offered were " . . . . a course in
farming, one in weights and meas-
ures .....and one in colloquial
languages which would fit a stu-
dent to act as censor. Also ....
motor repairing, banking, dietetics
and home care of the sick, a Red
Cross course, and a course in"
emergency aid."
"Those for the substitution ar-
gued that, although the courses
would necessarily be much con-
densed, they would still fit those
who took them to fill the minor
positions of men called to service.
As these courses would be in con-
nection with a student's major,"
they urged, "they would not seri-
ously damage her academic work,
only give it practical application."
"The negative argumerftjPurged
that only those who are^ leaving
college this year will be able to ap-
ply the training received in these
courses. Furthermore," they said,
"such courses would be only a
temporary digression from the life
work of most of the students and
that a completed college course
would out-weigh such values."
Previous to the voting, President
Thomas called a special chapel to
assure the students of the faculty's
sympathy with whatever decisions
the students made. Miss Thomas'
speech, in part, stated: "I always
think of you, and of all students
properly protected in their aca-
demic work as gold fish swimming
around in a great glass globe, en-
tirely free to move as you wish
within the globe, but protected by
the globe from outside activities
that will kill you, as the outside
air will kill goldfish, if you come in
contact with it."
"The one thing that we want to
create in you is a spirit of freedom
and responsibility. You must think
for yourselves. This is the one su-
preme thing that we women must
learn .... I should lose much
of my profound love for Bryn
Mawr if I did not believe that you,
her students, are learning here to
be free."
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